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(/) That provisions be inserted for testing calorific power, and for tests
to be made at any time, or with greater elasticity as to times, than as
prescribed by the Gas Works Clauses Act, 1871.
(g) That a proviso be added to Clause 34 similar to that in the Wandsworth
and Putney Gas Act, 1900, that before laying or relaying pipes in
streets not adopted by local authorities, notice be given to the local
authority, who shall notify the reasonable depth and position where such
pipes are to be laid.
(h) That Clause 40 be amended so that pipes for ancillary purposes
may only be laid in this Borough with this Council's consent.
(i) That the Company be made subject to the provisions of the Acts
which regulate and control Metropolitan Gas Companies.
74. Conferences between representatives of the Croydon and
Wimbledon Authorities and this Council and the London County
Council were held, and the basis of a united opposition settled.
Upon the opening of the second day's proceeding's before the
House of Commons Committee, counsel on behalf of the promoters
agreed to the following terms, which had been previously
settled by the Local Authorities and the London County Council,
and the opposition was thereupon withdrawn :—
(a) The standard price to be 3s. 2d. (3s. gd. proposed by the Bill).
(b) Additional capital £240,000 (,£300,000 proposed by the Bill). Borrowing
powers £80,000 (£100,000 proposed in the Bill). Also power to
borrow a further sum of £15,000 in respect of the old capilal.
(c) The amount of undivided profit which the Company may carry
forward in any half-year to be limited to the amount required to pay half
a year's dividend at the authorised rate on the paid-up capital of the Company
for the time being.
(d) A sub-paragraph to be added to Clauses 10 and 11 of the Bill
(Insurance Fund and Renewal Fund) defining the term "paid-up capital"
therein as £180,000.
(e) Clause 24 (charge for gas supplied by means of prepayment meters)
from the Model Bill to be inserted.
(/) The proviso with respect to preferential treatment in the Model
Bill (page 62, lines 13 and 16) to be inserted in Clause 2, page 3, line 7.
(g) The Company within one year from the passing of the Act to
provide a testing station with a building and the necessary apparatus, and
to maintain the same, on a site to be provided by the Company at or near
Haydon's Road in the Borough of Wimbledon.
(h) Clause 30 (2). The photometer used for testing illuminating power
to be the Bar Photometer. (The Bill provided that it should be the Bar